EP1333568A2 - Controleur de puissance d'alimentation programmable à conversion directe - Google Patents

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EP1333568A2
EP1333568A2 EP03075012A EP03075012A EP1333568A2 EP 1333568 A2 EP1333568 A2 EP 1333568A2 EP 03075012 A EP03075012 A EP 03075012A EP 03075012 A EP03075012 A EP 03075012A EP 1333568 A2 EP1333568 A2 EP 1333568A2
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02M—APPARATUS FOR CONVERSION BETWEEN AC AND AC, BETWEEN AC AND DC, OR BETWEEN DC AND DC, AND FOR USE WITH MAINS OR SIMILAR POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; CONVERSION OF DC OR AC INPUT POWER INTO SURGE OUTPUT POWER; CONTROL OR REGULATION THEREOF
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    • H02M1/42—Circuits or arrangements for compensating for or adjusting power factor in converters or inverters
    • H02M1/4208—Arrangements for improving power factor of AC input
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02M—APPARATUS FOR CONVERSION BETWEEN AC AND AC, BETWEEN AC AND DC, OR BETWEEN DC AND DC, AND FOR USE WITH MAINS OR SIMILAR POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; CONVERSION OF DC OR AC INPUT POWER INTO SURGE OUTPUT POWER; CONTROL OR REGULATION THEREOF
    • H02M5/00—Conversion of ac power input into ac power output, e.g. for change of voltage, for change of frequency, for change of number of phases
    • H02M5/02—Conversion of ac power input into ac power output, e.g. for change of voltage, for change of frequency, for change of number of phases without intermediate conversion into dc
    • H02M5/04—Conversion of ac power input into ac power output, e.g. for change of voltage, for change of frequency, for change of number of phases without intermediate conversion into dc by static converters
    • H02M5/22—Conversion of ac power input into ac power output, e.g. for change of voltage, for change of frequency, for change of number of phases without intermediate conversion into dc by static converters using discharge tubes with control electrode or semiconductor devices with control electrode
    • H02M5/25—Conversion of ac power input into ac power output, e.g. for change of voltage, for change of frequency, for change of number of phases without intermediate conversion into dc by static converters using discharge tubes with control electrode or semiconductor devices with control electrode using devices of a thyratron or thyristor type requiring extinguishing means
    • H02M5/257—Conversion of ac power input into ac power output, e.g. for change of voltage, for change of frequency, for change of number of phases without intermediate conversion into dc by static converters using discharge tubes with control electrode or semiconductor devices with control electrode using devices of a thyratron or thyristor type requiring extinguishing means using semiconductor devices only
    • H02M5/2573—Conversion of ac power input into ac power output, e.g. for change of voltage, for change of frequency, for change of number of phases without intermediate conversion into dc by static converters using discharge tubes with control electrode or semiconductor devices with control electrode using devices of a thyratron or thyristor type requiring extinguishing means using semiconductor devices only with control circuit
    • H02M5/2576—Conversion of ac power input into ac power output, e.g. for change of voltage, for change of frequency, for change of number of phases without intermediate conversion into dc by static converters using discharge tubes with control electrode or semiconductor devices with control electrode using devices of a thyratron or thyristor type requiring extinguishing means using semiconductor devices only with control circuit with digital control
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02M—APPARATUS FOR CONVERSION BETWEEN AC AND AC, BETWEEN AC AND DC, OR BETWEEN DC AND DC, AND FOR USE WITH MAINS OR SIMILAR POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; CONVERSION OF DC OR AC INPUT POWER INTO SURGE OUTPUT POWER; CONTROL OR REGULATION THEREOF
    • H02M5/00—Conversion of ac power input into ac power output, e.g. for change of voltage, for change of frequency, for change of number of phases
    • H02M5/02—Conversion of ac power input into ac power output, e.g. for change of voltage, for change of frequency, for change of number of phases without intermediate conversion into dc
    • H02M5/04—Conversion of ac power input into ac power output, e.g. for change of voltage, for change of frequency, for change of number of phases without intermediate conversion into dc by static converters
    • H02M5/22—Conversion of ac power input into ac power output, e.g. for change of voltage, for change of frequency, for change of number of phases without intermediate conversion into dc by static converters using discharge tubes with control electrode or semiconductor devices with control electrode
    • H02M5/25—Conversion of ac power input into ac power output, e.g. for change of voltage, for change of frequency, for change of number of phases without intermediate conversion into dc by static converters using discharge tubes with control electrode or semiconductor devices with control electrode using devices of a thyratron or thyristor type requiring extinguishing means
    • H02M5/27—Conversion of ac power input into ac power output, e.g. for change of voltage, for change of frequency, for change of number of phases without intermediate conversion into dc by static converters using discharge tubes with control electrode or semiconductor devices with control electrode using devices of a thyratron or thyristor type requiring extinguishing means for conversion of frequency
    • H02M5/273—Conversion of ac power input into ac power output, e.g. for change of voltage, for change of frequency, for change of number of phases without intermediate conversion into dc by static converters using discharge tubes with control electrode or semiconductor devices with control electrode using devices of a thyratron or thyristor type requiring extinguishing means for conversion of frequency with digital control
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02B—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO BUILDINGS, e.g. HOUSING, HOUSE APPLIANCES OR RELATED END-USER APPLICATIONS
    • Y02B70/00—Technologies for an efficient end-user side electric power management and consumption
    • Y02B70/10—Technologies improving the efficiency by using switched-mode power supplies [SMPS], i.e. efficient power electronics conversion e.g. power factor correction or reduction of losses in power supplies or efficient standby modes

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  • This invention relates generally to power generation and, more specifically, to programmable three-phase output voltage and frequency.
  • Randomly variable frequency AC power is not very useful. It is impossible to synchronize such power with a power supply network in a commercially practical manner. Such power cannot drive most applications designed for 60 Hz, line supply voltages. Few applications can tolerate such frequency variability.
  • Input solutions are mechanical and govern the power transfer to the synchronous machine.
  • Output solutions condition electrical power garnered from the synchronous machine.
  • VF Variable Frequency
  • cycloconverter systems the output solution has been the Variable Frequency (VF) and cycloconverter systems.
  • VF presents the load with power such as 115 VAC, three-phase power but only has a distribution capability at a frequency proportional to the engine speed.
  • this is usually 2:1.
  • power conditioning would be essential for almost all cases and, when added to the procurement, the additional cost of attendant motor controllers becomes prohibitively expensive.
  • a cycloconverter is a power electronics device designed to provide a variable voltage, constant frequency AC drive in a one stage operation, suitable for supply to an AC motor. These devices work by generating very high frequency three-phase power then selectively drawing voltages from the peaks of the three phases in a manner to construct rough approximations of lower frequency waveforms.
  • a VSCF system unit (cycloconverter) does have the ability to produce AC and DC simultaneously, it does not produce clean waveforms.
  • the voltage regulation is accomplished by a series of magnetic amplifiers, transformers, and bridge rectifiers.
  • the VSCF drive uses a simple drive system and lets the alternator produce an electrical supply that is frequency wild, i.e. not well-controlled, which is then shaped by a solid-state electrical unit. Nonetheless, the resulting waveform includes several harmonics that impart an imaginary component to the power and may interfere with the function of the load.
  • Still another means of generating constant frequency power from a variable source of torque is based upon converting and rectifying power to DC before inverting the DC power to AC power such as 60 Hz. line voltage.
  • This approach requires a converter that can sink current of opposite polarity to the output voltage.
  • most converters cannot accommodate a non-unity power factor load.
  • the current pulses that comprise the ripple may be four to five times as large as the peak of the current waveform for an equivalent unity power factor load.
  • Such current requires much larger conductors to minimize resistive losses.
  • the current peaks are not as large since smaller peaks occur more frequently, but the power quality is not as good because of large current transitions
  • the inventive device exploits high frequency modulation of the signal to balance the power throughout the input voltage cycle. By modulating both the width and the amplitude of the power waveform, no power is lost and the power factor remains substantially the same as that of the load when the power factor is calculated at the input frequency.
  • the invention receives polyphase power of variable frequency and passes power of a set frequency. Relationships between phases are exploited according to known trigonometric identities.
  • the present invention comprises a system and method for a direct conversion programmable power source controller.
  • the invention controls three-phase power by accepting a reference signal; generating three modulating signals, each for one phase of the input power and having a frequency equal to the sum of the input frequency and the desired output frequency; accepting the three-phase electrical power from a wye connected power source; creating a high, chopping frequency for sampling; phase-angle-modulating the source signal at the chopping frequency according to each of the modulation signals. While in the high frequency state, the power passes easily through small two-winding transformers used either for isolation or for stepping up or stepping down the power.
  • the invention then re-reverses the reversed power and chops a portion of each half-cycle in a manner that restores the pulse-width modulation of the power sinusoid by the modulating sinusoid. Reversing the polarity of each phase of electrical power at the phase-angle modulation frequency to reproduce the pulse-width modulated waveform at the output.
  • Filters on the output integrate the power waves before feeding the power to the load in delta. Between any two terminals of the delta connection, the output voltage presents as a well-formed sinusoid.
  • the invention converts three-phase AC power to programmable frequency three-phase power without an intermediate DC stage and without large power storage devices.
  • the invention presents the source with the same power factor as the load.
  • conversion to high frequency reduces the size of necessary isolation transformers.
  • the high-frequency conversion technique reduces the size of the input and output filters and allows those filters to produce near perfect sine waves.
  • Users can also optionally program output voltage and frequencies without component change by providing appropriate reference waveforms.
  • the invention also allows for bi-directional power flow thus to accommodate non-unity power factor (reactive), or braking or regenerative loads.
  • phase errors due to input and output filters eliminates phase errors due to input and output filters.
  • the presence of a phase reference allows comparison with output waveforms for control loops.
  • the control loops eliminate line disturbances such as phase-voltage imbalance and short-term spikes.
  • control process does not require digital signal processing.
  • inventive device may operate with a state machine with a look-up table for the desired waveforms, and a standard multiplying digital-to-analog converter.
  • the present invention provides means of converting three-phase power of variable frequency and amplitude to three-phase power of programmable and constant frequency and amplitude without an intermediate DC conversion.
  • the inventive device exploits high frequency modulation of the signal to balance the power throughout the input voltage cycle. By modulating both the width and the amplitude of the power waveform, no power is lost.
  • the invention receives polyphase power of variable frequency and passes power of a selectable frequency. Load current reflected to the source is similarly modulated so that the source current frequency tracks changes in the source voltage. Relationships between phases are exploited according to known trigonometric identities. Each phase of the power is modulated distinctly until at the terminals of the transformer where the voltage represents the difference in potential at distinct terminals of the transformer.
  • FIGURE 1a portrays the circuitry for handling a single phase of the power passed by the inventive device. For that purpose, an exemplary phase of the polyphase power supply is set forth here.
  • a generator 20 provides one of several phases of power to the circuit 10 shown as is shown in FIGURE 1b. In most cases, this will be a driven three-phase synchronous machine connected in wye.
  • the generator 20 supplies a voltage) to a pair of primary terminals of a transformer 55.
  • a secondary pair of terminals of the transformer 55 then feeds power to or receives it from a load 80.
  • the invention will receive current from a load as in the case of regenerative braking of a load.
  • the inventive circuit includes inductive and capacitive filter elements on the primary circuit, 42 and 46 respectively, and inductive and capacitive filter elements on the secondary circuit, 72 and 76 respectively.
  • the filters, 42 and 46 are used to remove ripple from the source currents and load voltages. Because the filters need only remove very high frequency components of the signals, the filter elements 42 and 46, 72 and 76 need not store significant power.
  • a primary chopper 50 and a secondary chopper 60 are used to remove ripple from the source currents and load voltages.
  • FIGURE 1a is a schematic diagram of a circuit corresponding to a single phase of the inventive system.
  • the system in fact, comprises multiple circuits of the configuration shown in FIGURE 1b.
  • this exposition will present a three-phase system.
  • the same inventive system is adaptable to any multiple-phase execution by replicating the circuit shown in FIGURE 1a to correspond with each phase.
  • the primary chopper 50 performs one of the main roles, that of phase modulating the power signal in the inventive power supply, by deriving a modulation sinusoid in a feedback loop as set forth below.
  • This modulation sinusoid as derived from the source voltage and reference signals, has a signal logic voltage level and a frequency representing the sum of the frequencies of sinusoids from the input power source sinusoid and a reference sinusoid at the desired output frequency.
  • This reference sinusoid is, if desired, drawn from a power grid the power source 20 will supply.
  • the basic relationship between the elements of the circuit 10 exploits the process of modulating the incoming signal with a local oscillator frequency.
  • the modulation is the multiplication of the power waveform by the reference sinusoid. This modulation suppresses the two fundamental frequencies as well as produces sum and difference frequencies.
  • V A V peak 2 (cos( t ( ⁇ s - ⁇ m )-cos( t ( ⁇ s + ⁇ m )))
  • the ⁇ s and ⁇ m are the source and the modulating frequencies respectively
  • each phase is offset from the other phases by 2 ⁇ /3 radians, or 120 degrees.
  • the selection of the phase of the modulating frequency yields algebraic opportunities to suppress the upper resulting sideband from the modulation.
  • the modulating frequency is offset by -2 ⁇ /3 radians or its phase equivalent 4 ⁇ /3 radians. If the phases are designated A, B, and C, the equations describing each of the remaining individual phases are:
  • Each of the arithmetic processes set forth above can be effected in the combination of the primary chopper 50, the transformer 55, and the secondary chopper without the use of digital logic at power levels.
  • “Chopping” occurs at a frequency significantly higher than the frequency of either the power supply or the desired output.
  • the multiplication is a byproduct of the chopping process in conjunction with pulse-width modulation.
  • Pulse-width modulation characterizes the output of the secondary chopper 60, that is the multiplication modulation.
  • the width of each pulse represents the value derived from the sinusoidal modulation function, the height of the pulse, from the power sinusoid.
  • the pulse-width modulation is implemented by means of two distinct steps. First, the primary chopper 50 achieves phase-angle modulation. Then, once so modulated, the circuit 10 passes near-square-waves through the transformer 55 at chopping frequency that is very high relative to the power and reference sinusoids. The synchronous secondary chopper 60 inverts the second of each square wave pair to create a pulse-width-modulated waveform at the same chopping frequency.
  • phase-angle modulated square wave arises from parameters implicit in the nature of a sine wave itself.
  • the magnitude of the sine function is bounded by the value one or unity, i.e.:
  • this relationship allows the modulation of the power waveform solely with switching devices.
  • the invention admits power during a portion of a sampling period corresponding to the value of the reference sinusoid.
  • Chopping means the opening and closing of a switching device at a given frequency.
  • a full chopping cycle comprises one period when the switch is in an open or non-conducting state and an immediately adjacent period when the switch is in a closed or conducting state.
  • the primary chopper modulates the power signal by reversing the polarity at a high frequency.
  • the onset of the reversal occurs after a fixed clock signal according to the term .5 ⁇ (1 + M sin( ⁇ m n ⁇ t )).
  • This primary chopping allows a balanced high-frequency power wave to pass through the necessary transformer 55.
  • the secondary chopper re-reverses the polarity of the power wave according to the fixed frequency clock signal, folding the power signal onto itself according to the constant term in the expression.5 ⁇ (1 + M sin( ⁇ m n ⁇ t )).
  • the M term is a coefficient between zero and one, chosen for purposes of scaling the modulation, increasing or decreasing the magnitude of the sine curve corresponding to regulating the voltage output in the equation (10).
  • One of the virtues of the inventive primary chopper 50 is presentation of phase-angle-modulated square waves to the primary terminals of the transformer 55.
  • the invention seeks only to accomplish half of the process of multiplying the sinusoids before placing the power through a transformer 55 (isolation, "step up,” or “step down” as the determined by the application).
  • the voltage sent through the transformer as represented in Equation 13 is a phase modulated square wave.
  • the pulse-width-modulated waveform contains very low frequency components, much lower than those of the chopper square wave.
  • a frequency significantly higher than either the power or the modulating sine waves is selected. This is the frequency that will be passed through the transformer and is suitably any frequency selected to minimize hysteresis and eddy current losses while remaining high enough to yield good resolution of the power wave.
  • Frequency might be chosen to optimize the characteristics of a chosen transformer. So long as it is suitably high to yield sufficiently formed sinusoids when passed through the final filters, the frequency is not critical to the operation of the invention.
  • a square wave that is phase modulated contains all of the information necessary to effect the product of sines modulation, but the fundamental frequency will be very close to the frequency of the phase modulated square wave. This fact yields an opportunity to select a frequency much higher than that of the input power wave and the modulation sine wave. Doing so will allow the use of a much smaller transformer in the invention as transformers designed for high frequency are generally much smaller than those necessary for lower frequency so long as the average voltage sent through the transformer is zero. The higher the lowest frequency, the shorter the period before the average returns to zero.
  • Transformers also require symmetrical waves for efficiency. Where the average voltage across the primary terminals over a period exceeds zero, the net resultant current will push the transformer towards core saturation.
  • a symmetrical (the voltage peaks displace equally from zero, i.e. the magnitude of the negative and positive portions of the waveform is the same) will fulfill the requirement that the average is zero over two sampling periods.
  • the higher frequency square wave allows the transformer to pass power without a long-term (greater than a single period at the higher frequency) effect on the transformer flux.
  • Curve 110 is a clock curve used to set the sampling frequency, ⁇ samp , for purposes of admitting a portion of the power waveform.
  • the curve 110 has a period of ⁇ t , reflecting a sampling period.
  • ⁇ t is used here to prevent confusion with the period of either the power source or modulating sinusoids and to reflect the analogy to Riemann Sums.
  • the next portion of the algorithm necessary to effect Equation 12 is the curve relating to the 0.5(1+ M sin( ⁇ m n ⁇ t ))factor.
  • ⁇ t commencing at either the leading or the falling edge of the clock pulse 122, the pulse will remain logically high for a proportion of the ⁇ t period equal to 0.5(1+ M sin(( ⁇ m n ⁇ t )) and then immediately fall to negative logic levels 124.
  • Curve 140 is a phase-angle-modulated square-wave with glitches 142.
  • a glitch is a sudden break in function or continuity, usually caused by switching error, of a transient nature.
  • this glitch 142 is very transient but, it is, nonetheless, noted here.
  • the glitch has no functional significance in this application because the inductive properties of the transformer remove the affects of the glitch 142 from practical consideration. Nonetheless, the glitch 142 serves as a benchmark for discussion of later processing.
  • FIGURE 3 portrays a schematic diagram of one an exemplary gating device 52 that is a part of the primary chopper 50.
  • the gating device 52 comprises gangs of MOSFETs 501, 502, 503, and 504; that is the gating device 52 is a simple bridge.
  • a logic signal fed to diagonal pairs of MOSFETs e.g. 501 and 503 or 502 and 504 opens and closes the MOSFETs to appropriately pass the power curve to the transformer 55.
  • curve 140 is the output of an XOR gate (not shown).
  • Most commercial XOR gates also provide the complementary logic curve. In the complement, logical highs in the original curve correspond to logical lows in the complement and vice versa.
  • the output of the XOR gate is fed to the gate terminals 15 and 17 of one diagonal pair of MOSFETs 501 and 503, respectively.
  • the complementary output is fed to the gate terminals 16 and 18 of the remaining diagonal pair of MOSFETs 502 and 504, respectively.
  • the waveform at the primary terminals at the transformer 55 is a square wave at the clock frequency and power levels; it is offset from the clock wave by a time period corresponding to the magnitude of the modulating sine according to Equation 13.
  • the wave is high frequency and symmetrical and thus allows the use of a smaller transformer.
  • the secondary chopper 60 uses one half-cycle of the clock pulse 110 to invert that portion of the wave that either precedes or follows the clock transition 2. By this means, the secondary chopper inverts the curve between every other glitch portrayed in FIGURE 2.
  • the same gating device 52 shown in FIGURE 3 is suitably used in the secondary chopper.
  • the resulting pulse-width-modulated curve 120 now determines the periods of conductivity, and the clock transition 110 causes the reversal of the polarity of the output. Because the demodulation is synchronized to the modulation, the resulting waveform is the product of sines of Equation (3) shown in FIGURE 4 as curve 160.
  • the invention produces the power described in Equations 6, 7, and 8: smooth three-phase power at the desired frequency.
  • Another inventive aspect of the present invention is the use of a feedback loop to produce a waveform as the sum of frequencies, ⁇ m , used for modulation.
  • the modulating frequency, ⁇ m will have a value of the sum of the desired output frequency and the source frequency.
  • the trigonometric identity set forth in Equation 2 is, again, employed to generate the modulating frequency, ⁇ m .
  • the interrelation of the power and control circuits provides a feedback loop that assures the regularity of the output waveform by assuring that the difference between the input frequency and the sum of the input and modulating frequencies remains the same.
  • the invention draws from the input power curves from each phase of the power from the source 20.
  • the inventive device uses as input a reference waveform representing the desired output frequency. This might be a waveform drawn from the power grid, from a local oscillator or from a look-up table.
  • ⁇ s from above and ⁇ ref
  • the invention uses this source frequency, ⁇ s , from above and ⁇ ref , the invention generates a product of the sines according to the same trigonometric identity:
  • the mathematics is easily performed at signal levels using an analog four-quadrant multiplier, a multiplying digital-to-analog converter, or state machine recalling a sine form from a memory look-up table, for example.
  • the feedback loop employs one small but critical difference between feedback and the forward algorithms is the direction of rotation, or phase sequence, of the reference sine multipliers.
  • the direction is the reverse of the modulator set shown in the forward path. That is why the sum frequency, rather than the difference frequency, is preserved.
  • the difference between phases results in a simple sine wave at a frequency equal to the sum of the input and modulation frequencies. For instance, as between the B and C phases:
  • the invention is self-regulating such that fluctuations in the input frequency do not affect the output frequency. So, too, as earlier identified, the amplitude of the output sine is governed by the value of the modulating constant, M, in Equation 14. M can be used to control a simple feedback loop.
  • the square-waves are at a frequency much higher than that of either the source or the output power.
  • the fundamental frequency does drop but still remains much higher than the source and input power frequencies.
  • the inductive filter element 72 (FIGURE 1a) and the capacitive filter element 76 (FIGURE 1a) can energize and de-energize at frequencies that are two orders of magnitude higher than that of the output power. It will be appreciated, though, that the filter elements 72 and 76 may energize and de-energize at frequencies that are either greater than or less than two orders of magnitude higher than that of the output power, as desired. Thus such leading and lagging effects that they might introduce are de minimus at the output.
  • FIGURE 5 sets forth a method 205 of producing programmable three-phase voltage and frequency according to the invention.
  • Electrical power is received from a driven synchronous machine at block 210.
  • each phase of the source power is sampled.
  • a reference sinusoid is drawn from either the power grid or a generated oscillation at block 220.
  • the device then multiplies the sine values to create a product of sines for each phase according to Equations 15, 16, and 17 at block 225.
  • the invention employs one of two modes of the feedback process. Because the magnitude of the output voltage is proportionate to the coefficient used to scale the modulation sinusoid, the method monitors the output voltage and adjusts the coefficient between zero and one to achieve a constant or a programmable output voltage. The scaling is a dynamic and constant process thus overcoming fluctuations in the source voltage. As properly scaled, the modulating sinusoid then dictates the phase-angle modulation of the source power as it travels through the transformer.
  • the invention phase-angle creates and then continuously shifts a significantly higher frequency square-wave at block 235.
  • the shifting is according to the corresponding modulation sinusoid for the phase of the source power to be modulated.
  • the polarity of the corresponding source power phase is then periodically reversed according to this phase-angle shifted square wave.
  • the resulting power wave is sent through the primary terminals of a transformer 55 (FIGURE 1a) at block 245.
  • the resulting voltage is chopped and re-reversed according to the original square-wave to produce a pulse-width-modulated product of the source power phase and the "sum of the frequencies" modulating sine wave 160. Filtering the sine to integrate the resulting wave results in a smooth wave at 255.
  • the power is supplied to the load in delta connection at block 260.
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